Even after everything this is still shocking...

[Cookie Monster]

Doesnt account for money spent on wages either...

[Alex Ranger]

That cant be right.....for example, chelsea didnt spend £369 million on transfers last season surely!?

[klonk]

That cant be right.....for example, chelsea didnt spend £369 million on transfers last season surely!?

correct... the table comes from the daily mail and the article says "The fees are calculated by the money spent on all players who played for their respective club last season - not just players who were bought in the 2012-13 transfer windows".

i'm a bit dubious about it myself... according to the article, our squad is currently worth just £7.58m less than we paid for it. i reckon just samba and mbia combined are probably now worth about £8m less than we paid for them.

[zeberdee]

Not sure that table tells much.

Last stat I saw was that QPR had record spending/debt matched only by Chelsea up to 2012

which is before Remy and Samba etc.

[acricketer]

Looks like we need to spend more if we want to compete with the big boys. I thought all along there was a bit of penny pinching going on.